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Part III: Pitcher’s Duel [by Dean Smith]
The essence of the rivalry between the Orioles and the Yankees revealed itself last night. Tense, cerebral, nail-biting, four-hour pitching duels have defined their contests over the past three decades. Add managers Buck Showalter…
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My boy sick in mind asked me why I wake
I wake in flooding sunlight, I said, a thousand impatient, tiny tongues Licking at shadows, lapping under wood. Along the lane. My lips are cracked and sore, my throat dry. I am tired. Almost…
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Meet the Press: Dante Di Stefano in Conversation with Michael Spooner of University Press of Colorado & Utah State University Press and Patricia Colleen Murphy, Author of Hemming Flames
DD: In her essay, “When We Dead Awaken,” Adrienne Rich writes: “For a poem to coalesce, for a character or an action to take shape, there has to be an imaginative transformation of reality…
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Part I: Off Day [by Dean Smith]
Back and forth, back and forth– my one point of rest is the orange and black Orioles swinging nest! An off day in a pennant race is torture. Last evening, I paced the room mumbling…
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“Jewish farmers! Real farmers!” August Market Report [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
Egg farm grading room, Vineland, NJ Surely this has happened to you: One day you have a knotty research question. You begin with, say, Wikipedia. You click on a footnote link, one click leads…
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Grief Canning [by Barbara Hamby]
Tomatoes, before and after (photos (c) Barbara Hamby) Four months before my mother died, I was visiting her in Honolulu. She had quit cooking, and I worried about her getting enough vegetables in her…
